Gurdwara renovation

What was built

Renovation correcting a predecessor architect's wrong design development: a wrong partition in the lower ground floor hall was removed and the hall recorrected. Institutional renovation carries a community's expectations as well as a client's, and the recorded work here is precise: remove the wrong partition, restore the hall to its intended form.

How an engagement like this runs

An institutional engagement runs on two calendars: the academic one and the construction one. Presentation drawings resolve the campus logic, gates, movement and the block that keeps working; working drawings and structural follow block by block; supervision is phased so occupied wings are never closed for cosmetic work. Payment stages align with the committee funding cycle.

This is the practice’s standing method for the type, not a claim about this project. The stage sequence and payment triggers are on how we work.

Where this record stands

The practice’s archive is being documented project by project. For this entry, the record holds location, the recorded brief; still to be documented are year, scale, photographs from the practice archive, the client consent that allows story and photographs to publish.

This type of work

Schools, colleges and institutes, including buildings kept running while construction proceeded.